Caucasian linguistics: recent advances and emerging topics (à Lyon)

This conference aims to bring together scholars working on the languages of the Caucasus in order to foster transnational collaborations and cross-team intellectual exchange. We are broadly interested in all aspects of research on linguistic diversity, including descriptive, typological, diachronic, sociolinguistic or other types of studies. Young researchers are particularly encouraged to submit an abstract.
Keynote speakers

• Natalia Bogomolova – Speaker and Addressee in Syntax: personal pronouns and person clitics in Tabasaran
• Lena Borise – The role of prosodic phonology in the grammars of Georgian, Ossetic, and Svan
• Denis Creissels – Coded and uncoded valency alternations in Nakh-Daghestanian languages (handout here)
• Robin Meyer – Morphosyntactic parallels between Ancient Armenian and Hurro-Urartian: contact or coincidence?

Roundtable

Working on Caucasian Languages Outside of Russia: Where and how?

Moderated by Jérémy Pasquereau (LLING – UMR 6310, CNRS / Université de Nantes)

Organizers

• Marina Chumakina (University of Surrey)
• Nina Dobrushina (DDL – UMR 5596, CNRS / Université Lumière Lyon 2) – Chair
• Jérémy Pasquereau (LLING – UMR 6310, CNRS / Université de Nantes)
• Neige Rochant (Université de Lausanne)

Programme committee

• Peter Arkadiev (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies)
• Natalia Bogomolova (Universität Bamberg)
• Lena Borise (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle – CNRS / Université Paris Cité)
• Denis Creissels (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
• Michael Daniel (Collegium de Lyon)
• Hélène Gérardin (École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université PSL)
• Steven Kaye (University of Surrey)
• Victoria Khurshudyan (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales)
• Timur Maisak (HSE University)
• Chiara Naccarato (HSE University)
• Léa Nash (Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis)
• Natalia Serdobolskaya (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Murad Suleymanov (École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université PSL)
• Nina Sumbatova (Russian State University for the Humanities)
• Jesse Wichers Schreur (Leiden University)